by lindaoppenheim | Jan 29, 2017 | Article
In his Smithsonian article, Danny Lewis includes an interactive map that “provides a detailed look at almost every documented lynching between the 1830s and 1960s. The map is part of a website created by a group called Monroe Work Today, which takes its name...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 12, 2016 | Video
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, narrates this powerful video that briefly illustrates the history of lynching of black people in the United States by white terrorists. Stevenson explains EJI’s project to memorialize the victims of...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 23, 2016 | News
Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative is planning a museum-memorial in Montgomery, Alabama to commemorate America’s black lynching victims.
by lindaoppenheim | May 2, 2016 | Broadcast
Ellen Frankman and T.J. Raphael interview Jason Ward, author of the book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century, which explores lynchings which took place in the early and mid-twentieth century on a bridge on the Chickasawhay River...
